Neale
Mahoney

Professor of Economics and David G. Booth Faculty Fellow

Neale Mahoney is Professor of Economics and David G. Booth Faculty Fellow at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He is co-director of the Becker Friedman Institute Health Economics Initiative at the University of Chicago and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Mahoney is an applied micro-economist with an interest in health insurance and consumer financial markets. His research has been published in the American Economic Review and the Quarterly Journal of Economics and has received coverage in The Economist, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal. He was named a Sloan Research Fellow in 2016.

Before joining Chicago Booth in 2013, Mahoney was a Robert Wood Johnson Fellow in health policy research at Harvard University. He has also worked at McKinsey & Company and for the Obama Administration on health care reform. Mahoney received a PhD and MA in economics from Stanford University and an ScB in applied mathematics-economics from Brown University.